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The Maldives Buys a New Island - That Floats : CleanTechnica - 1 views

  • Sea level rise creates new business opportunity and “green jobs” that we’ll see more of, borne from the effects of climate change, as sea levels rise. The first floating island has just been commissioned this week by the sinking island nation of the Maldives, from Dutch Docklands, whose past work includes part of  the artificial islands comprising The World off the coast of Dubai.
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    Does anyone recall Giorgio's Maldives project? Check this out. See what you missed out on oh, Chancellor?
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Airplane! is a Remake of an Old Fifties Flick - 0 views

  • If you’ve ever wondered where Jim Abrahams and David Zucker came up with those hilarious jokes in Airplane!, the answer isn’t strictly their warped minds. Many of the scenes set up for the gags were directly cribbed from 1957’s Zero Hour! It’s a movie about an ex fighter pilot named Stryker, who… well, see for yourself.

    (YouTube Link)

    And I’d always thought it was a spoof of the Airport movies. Of course, the writers did have warped minds, and saw this classic movie, replete with so many unfunny-yet- ripe-for-the-funny lines, as a perfect structure for the brilliant comedy it ultimately became.

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Timeline paintings - 1 views

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    "Timeline paintings Ward Shelley paints these wonderfully intricate timelines of different things...his life, Frank Zappa's career, and the history of the avant garde. Ward Shelley"
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How Do You See America? - 1 views

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    Let me start off by saying, the following maps are just JOKES. I'm a very proud American. But I will be the first to admit that my views of the rest of the world are a bit, well to be honest I have never been to any other country before (well Canada once, but that doesn't count.) Haha, C'mon, i'm kidding!! Anyway, don't take the following to seriously.
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Top 10 PETA protests of the decade - UPI.com - 0 views

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    "We look forward to what sort of wacky, zany, and sexy campaigns PETA has in store for the next decade. Whatever they are, you can count on us to be there! " From these photos, PETA = Pert Exhibitionists Tantalizing Aggressively
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The 14 Funniest Police Composite Sketches (PICTURES) - 0 views

  • "Police are looking for a.... Umm... Me tonight."
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    We know eye witnesses aren't always reliable, but police composite sketches almost never really look like the perpetrator. Remember the Unabomber? He looked nothing like the stylish, mustachioed, aviator-wearing hoodlum he was made out to be. All kidding aside, these are some of the worst police sketches we have ever seen. Whether they look like they were drawn by a third-grader or one of the guys in Times Square who does the big-headed caricatures, if anyone should be arrested, it's the artist responsible.
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"Hurt Locker" producers sued days before Oscars - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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    An Army sergeant on Tuesday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" five days before the Academy Awards, claiming the central character in the film is based on him. Master Sergeant Jeffrey S. Sarver believes screenwriter Mark Boal based "virtually all of the situations" in the film on events involving him and claims he coined the phrase "the hurt locker," according to a statement from lawyer Geoffrey Fieger in Southland, Michigan, who is representing Sarver.
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Why the Internet Will Fail (from 1995) - 1 views

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    "Back in 1995, Clifford Stoll, PhD wrote an article for Newsweek about a emerging thing called the internet. According to him, it was going to go nowhere. It's almost humorous how wrong he was. Then there's cyberbusiness. We're promised instant catalog shopping-just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obsolete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet-which there isn't-the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople. Link "
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    HAH!
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This rocket ship house sure makes your house look boring | DVICE - 0 views

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    How do you enter your home? Through a normal door? Bo-ring! Just take a gander at this ludicrous entrance, which is made to look like you're entering a spaceship (or at least a spaceship from the set of a 70's TV show) every time you come home. Apparently, this house is located in San Francisco on 3rd Ave near Geary. And sadly, it's not a permanent entryway. Instead, the folks who live there change up the front of the house for various theme parties that they have. And based on the entryway, I'm guessing those parties are pretty crazy.
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NOVA | Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor | The Threat of Midget Subs Today | PBS - 0 views

  • Lessons from Pearl Harbor The United States currently faces enemy forces far different than those we faced on December 7, 1941. But a relatively untold story of the attack on Pearl Harbor holds a warning that is still relevant. Just as the Japanese employed stealthy small submarines to penetrate the harbor and attack the U.S. battle fleet from below, today enemies of the nation could use the modern equivalents of these so-called "midget" submarines to infiltrate our shores.
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    @Jack--this is on Nova TONITE!!
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Tub-E bathtub adds automation and style to your bathing ritual | DVICE - 1 views

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    Tub-E bathtub adds automation and style to your bathing ritual Does anyone still take baths these days? While the speed and efficiency of a quick shower is hard to beat, there is something to be said for a long soothing hot soak in the tub. I'm just not sure I'd want to do it in the Tub-E. Looking like a triumph of form over function, the undeniably cool looking Tub-E includes several high tech functions to make your bath time a bit more luxurious. A thermostatically controlled heater under the seat keeps the water at a constant temperature, so you won't be adding hot water to reheat the water every few minutes. Add to that its auto fill, auto empty, and auto clean cycles, plus the ability to inject various bath oils during the fill process, and you certainly have a few improvements over the centuries old basic tub. My main issue is that it just looks incredibly uncomfortable. The Tub-E is available from Wild Terrain Designs. No word on the price."
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Dark Roasted Blend: Mysterious Non-Egyptian Pyramids - 1 views

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    James Gaussman and the Jewelled Pyramid of China Egyptian pyramids? Sure, everyone knows about the ones at Giza - and a few aficionados might know about the 138 others (!) scattered around them. Mesoamerican pyramids? Okay, a lot of folks know about them, too -- or even that the great one at Cholula is considered to be the largest one in the world.
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Rolling fireplace puts danger on the move | DVICE - 0 views

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    "Related Sections: Household Rolling fireplace puts danger on the move Rolling fireplace puts danger on the move I love a good fireplace, but I hate having to move away from it to make myself a sandwich or use the bathroom. That's why I love this rolling fireplace: I can roll it around with me wherever I go. Sure, if it tips over or goes down some stair accidentally you might just burn your house down, but come on. You're not some sort of klutz. I think the possibility of imminent danger makes this thing even cooler, anyways."
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The Ghost City of Ordos - Ordos - Gizmodo - 1 views

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Art Shanties at Medicine Lake | Plymouth, Minnesota | Atlas Obscura - 0 views

  • Every time winter rolls around in Minnesota, hundreds of thousands of people are left with only two options: hibernate for the season, or get on with living. The Art Shanty Project was borne out of the latter mentality as a new take on the local sport of ice fishing, in which dedicated outdoorsmen and women trudge out into the cold, go sit on frozen lake in a little shack, drink beer, and stare at a hole in the ice... for hours.
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Eeee-ewe, A Martini? « Bulldozer00's Blog - 2 views

  • I love dirty martinis, but thank god (little “g” on purpose because I’m not fond of  strict rules of behavior and BS dogma regarding a point source deity with a beard who looks like us). I only drink them on weekends – fer now (hee hee!). I used to hate the taste of DMs along with other hoytee- -toytee bourgeoisie (I’m not a communist – I swear!) drinks (e.g. manhattans, cosmos, rusty nails, etc), but a dear friend of mine for over twenty five years introduced them to me a coupla years ago. Did this post have too many parentheses in it? If it did, it’s cuz I’m on my second dirty martini. If U check the date on this post, it’s a Sunday :^).
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    POMLover's blog! stop by and say hi.
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Power Shift With a Dirty Old Baby's Head - 0 views

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    "You will want to keep your shifting short and quick just so you can avoid having to touch this grimy Dollhead Knob Shifter. Of course, if you were a heartless bastard you could probably just decapitate one of your kid's dolls, rub it in the dirt and achieve the same effect. Either way, I'm amazed that someone actually has the nerve to sell this thing."
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Hollywood billboards taken down amid legal battle - Yahoo! News - 0 views

  • The ads for Asics athletic gear that hung horizontally across several storefronts near the Kodak Theater where the Oscars will be held Sunday were all removed by Saturday. Three of the four people charged have posted $100,000 bail each. City law bans the installation of supergraphics, vinyl images draped over buildings. Last week in the most severe step taken in the ongoing battle over the banners, Los Angeles businessman Kayvan Setareh was jailed on $1 million bail for hanging an enormous movie ad on a Hollywood Boulevard building he owns near the Kodak Theatre.
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    Five giant billboards have been removed from buildings in Hollywood near the site of the Academy Awards after Los Angeles prosecutors charged four people and four companies with hanging the so-called supergraphics illegally.
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How To Be Happy At Work…And To Deal With That Jerk Boss - 1 views

  • the Danes have a word for happiness at work: arbejdsglæde (and if you want to stay happy, don’t try to pronounce that).  Kjerulf says that this concept is deeply ingrained in the Scandinavian work culture. It’s about enjoying what you do; feeling proud of your work; knowing that what you do is important and being recognized for it; having fun; and being energized. When workers achieve arbejdsglæd, the business benefits from higher productivity, because happy people achieve better results; higher quality, because happy employees care about quality; lower absenteeism, because people actually want to go to work; and less stress and burnout, because happy people are less susceptible to stress. Not surprisingly, all of this leads to higher sales, better customer satisfaction, more creativity, and higher profits for the business.
  • It is easy to look at all the things that are wrong with your job. But instead of being despondent at work and focusing on the two or three things that you think are wrong with your job, try thinking about the twenty or so things that are good about it. Try making a list of all that’s good about your job, including the fact that you have one. Don’t think it; FEEL the gratitude. Let it well up and surround you and overflow. It takes some practice, but you can get there. Now from this space tackle the problems you are facing. They no longer seem so formidable, and the odds are great that you can tackle them more effectively.
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    FEEEEEEL the gratitude, FEEL it, cmon dammit feel it.. ah the hell with it, you're fired
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The Towns That Chocolate Built - 0 views

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    "IMAGE: Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate bar vs. Hershey's Milk Chocolate bar. When iconic American chocolate-makers Hershey announced an (ultimately unsuccessful) bid to take over the equally iconic British confectionery company, Cadbury, most discussion revolved around one of two things: business reporters focused on the stock price implications of any deal, while the food media conducted taste tests, and were joined by patriotic British journalists in their anxiety that Hershey might meddle with Cadbury's infinitely superior formula. "
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